2025, SHORT FILMS

Familiar

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by Javed Shahid Je’Andrew DaSouza • 23 mins • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • English • 2025

FAMiLIAR is a poignant short film that delves into the many ways grief manifests in people’s lives. Each installment tells a unique and deeply personal story, exploring how loss can blur the lines between memory, reality, and imagination. Through visually immersive storytelling and emotionally charged narratives, FAMiLIAR highlights the struggle of moving forward while carrying the weight of the past. At its core, FAMiLIAR is a thought-provoking exploration of how grief shapes our perception, challenges our sense of self, and demands to be reckoned with—whether we are ready or not.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Coyotes

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by Vashti Anderson • 15 mins • Short • Drama • United States • English • 2024

Daruk, a Caribbean man, is living in a real estate listing in upstate New York that Colleen, a real estate agent, is trying to sell. The house has a life of its own, echoing their thoughts and desires, and offering passages to secret spaces. As they each try to find out why they’re there and why they won’t – or can’t – leave the house, they develop an intense connection, and the consequences are everlasting.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Caribbean Queen

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by Sekiya Dorsett • 22 mins • Short • United States • English • 2024

Caribbean Queen is an inspiring short film that follows the journey of Q – a young Caribbean boy, who wants to become the Queen of the West Indian Day Carnival Parade. However, prejudice from family and the community threatens this dream and celebration of Caribbean culture. But with determination and the help of their bestie, they may just make it to the Parkway!

2025, SHORT FILMS

Cane Juice

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by Antonio Diaz • 11 mins • Short• Trinidad and Tobago • English • 2024

Set in 1975, the film delves into the eerie superstition surrounding a cane factory where something ominous is said to happen every Good Friday. When a curious young woman ventures inside to admire its haunting beauty, the grounds appear abandoned—save for the distant call of birds and a mysterious drifter. What begins as an innocent exploration soon unravels into something far more unsettling.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Bredrins

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by Amir Aether Valen Ali • 15 mins • Short • Drama • Trinidad and Tobago • English • 2025

Bound by a deep friendship despite their vastly different upbringings, Jonathon and Myles have been inseparable throughout their university years. But when a fateful encounter forces them to confront old wounds and unspoken resentments, their bond begins to unravel. As ambitions and pride clash, the brothers-in-spirit find themselves at a crossroads: reconcile and rebuild the trust that once defined them, or succumb to the bitterness that threatens to drive them apart forever.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Zwarte Ibis (Black Ibis)

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by Emma-Lee Amponsah • 18 mins • Experimental • Short • Futurism • Surrealism • Black narratives, Poetic • Queer • Netherlands • 2024

Zwarte Ibis (Black Ibis) is a short poetic film portraying a young Black woman’s quest for intimacy in a world where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, the political and the personal, the past and the present, become ever blurrier. The short film is an afro-surrealistic reverie, poetically re-imagining our contemporary conceptions of relationships with the self and with imagined communities through a questioning of historically and culturally imposed views on Black people’s intimate lives in the diaspora.

2025, SHORT FILMS

Beyond (Au Dela)

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by Nicolas Polixene & Sylvain Loubet-dit-gajol • 14 mins • Short • Martinique • French • 2024

All Hallows’ Eve, Auranne is called back from the dead by her husband to share one last evening together. Despite his wife’s decomposing body, he’s madly in love and does everything to make this night perfect. But as the hours pass, Auranne’s mind wanders into strange visions linked to the ritual of her resurrection.